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Hey, you just did a great
Ha - you're right!!
Ha - you're right!!
I'm Canadian, so perhaps that explains this phenomenon :-)
...and your pronunciation of
Thanks for the incredible content Brent!!
Too funny!
Too funny!
We Canadians always hear about our pronunciation of "about" (A BOOT), but I don't hear it when I say it :-)
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Brent
HEY,
Could you explain more why B answer is right by omit "was" in front of "made"
Thanks!
For answer choice B, it isn't
For answer choice B, it isn't necessary to have "was" in front of the second verb (made), since the word "was" at the beginning of the sentence can be applied to the second verb.
A similar example: "On Friday, Joe was fired and asked to leave the office." Here "was" can be applied to "fired" AND to "leave". We can, however, write "On Friday, Joe was fired and was asked to leave the office."
Crystal clear! Thanks!
Hi Brent,
Just to confirm, so when there is a clear sign (in this case ONCE) something happened before a past time, usage of past perfect tense is optional? or must?
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If the order of events is
If the order of events is obvious, then we can forgo the past perfect tense if we wish.
For more on this, watch https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat-sentence-correction/video/1178 (starting at 7:53 in the video)
Even their most ardent
(A) that no less than a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary
(B) that nothing other than a technical or scientific breakthrough is needed
(C) that a technical or scientific breakthrough is necessary
(D) the necessity for an occurrence of a technical or scientific breakthrough
(E) the necessity for a technical or scientific breakthrough occurring
Don'T you think that C DISTORT THE MEANING OF SENTENCE ..???
Why not B is a Right on e.?
A and B are fine, BUT they
A and B are fine, BUT they use more words than are necessary.
Answer choice A says that anything LESS THAN a technical or scientific breakthrough will be insufficient to achieve a certain goal. This is the same as saying that a technical or scientific breakthrough WILL be sufficient to achieve that goal. This is what C says.
Answer choice B suffers from the same problem.
For this reason, C (the shortest way to convey the same idea) is preferred.
Does that help?
Cheers,
Brent
Hmm Yes so in GMAT if
So basically we have to attack on a thing that what sentence want to convey us nothing anything more than this ..
Thanks :)
Yes, the intended meaning
Yes, the intended meaning must always be considered first.
Hi Brent, thanks for the
A question - do parallel elements need to be in the same tense? (as the example you gave in this video) - I remember seeing a few sentences where this wasn't true & yet the answer was accepted as right
I'm glad you like the videos!
I'm glad you like the videos!
I don't believe such a sentence would be parallel.
I'm trying to think of an example of a sentence that is parallel yet uses different tenses and can't come up with one.
The next time you see an official question doing so, please let me know.